Neo himself wasn’t a simulation (at least, on the most natural interpretation of the first movie).
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On this view, we’re living in a simulation in the way that Neo was inhabiting a virtual world in the movie The Matrix. So who’s actually proposing the hypothesis? Um, no one.Ĭould we be living in a Matrix? SCENARIO 2: THE MATRIX Thus, to suggest that our universe is that kind of simulation is to suggest that we don’t really exist at all. The Sims is, in effect, just a highly interactive CGI movie. They no more exist than Sherlock Holmes and Captain America exist. It’s not merely that they aren’t conscious beings they aren’t beings at all. The “virtual people” in The Sims are entirely fictional. This scenario is easily refuted though, because it’s trivially self-defeating. The difference would be only a matter of scale and complexity. On this view, the universe would be a simulation in the way that the popular video game the Sims is a simulation. In a very clear and concise blog post on this very topic, Christian philosopher James Anderson describes three possible scenarios we could be asking about, I will quote him at length because I can’t say it better than he does: SCENARIO 1: THE SIMS Now, as we jump into the question “Are We Living in a Computer Simulation?” it’s important to clarify what kind of scenario we’re talking about. While the Simulation Hypothesis is similar in many ways to the skeptical threat arguments mentioned above, it also differs in important ways as we’ll see.
(There are lots and lots of flavors of Idealism, not all of them could be posed this way, we are referring to the ones that do pose a threat to our notion of the material world and our experience in it.)
Perhaps the most fundamental thing in reality is mind and there is no matter. Idealism: perhaps what we think is the material world, which is independent of the observer, is really dependent on the human mind after all, or some cosmic mind.
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The Truman Show Threat: perhaps what I think is the real world is just an elaborate tv set where the producers are adjusting my circumstances for the pleasure of the audience(could also be titled the Adjustment Bureau threat). Solipsism/Brain in a Vat: perhaps I’m the only thing that actually exists and everything else and everyone else is just a figment of my imagination or perhaps I’m not all alone, but some scientists have removed my brain, have put it in a vat or a jar with all the requisite tools to keep my brain alive and they’re feeding me my experiences through electrodes- if either of these are the case then none of my experiences are veridical. Similar arguments have been presented throughout the history of philosophy including:ĭescartes’ Evil Demon: perhaps in all of our experiences we are being completely misled by a malevolent demon, if this is the case we can’t be said to truly know anything. These types of arguments seek to provide one big defeater for all of our human knowledge and leave us with the specter of skepticism looming large over our beliefs. Skeptical threats are global threats in that they threaten everything we know, think we know, or could possibly know with that ancient epistemological enemy: skepticism. This question is another in a long line of skeptical threats. By Parker Settecase / 17-minute read Is Reality a Simulation?Īre we living in a computer simulation? Are we just a video game being played by some snot-noised kid on Alpha Centauri? This idea, or family of ideas, is known as The Simulation Hypothesis and it has been gaining more and more traction since philosopher Nick Bostrom wrote his 2003 paper “Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?
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